Theanolte Bähnisch

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Dorothea "Theanolte" Bähnisch , b. Nolte (born April 25, 1899 in Beuthen ; † July 9, 1973 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Dorothea Nolte was born on April 25, 1899 in Beuthen OS in Silesia as the daughter of the grammar school teacher Franz Nolte (* 1864 in Germete near Warburg, † July 29, 1928 in Warendorf) and his wife Therese, née. Kalthoff (born February 15, 1870 in Germete) and grew up in Warendorf . After attending school, she studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1922 she passed the first legal state examination , and was then a law trainee in Merseburg worked until she graduated in 1926 ended with the second state examination. Then she appeared as an assessor in the Prussian an administrative service and served in various departments of the Berlin Police Department, most recently as Councilor . In 1927 she married her colleague Albrecht Bähnisch and from then on bore the imaginary first name “Theanolte”. In the following years she worked as a housewife and had two children.

In 1931, Bähnisch founded the Freiheitsverlag , which published critical writings about the National Socialists . Together with her husband, she opened a law firm in Berlin in 1933 and then worked as a lawyer for those politically persecuted, including the photographer Lotte Jacobi . Since 1939 she was a member of the resistance group around Ernst von Harnack .

After the Second World War , Bähnisch was again active in the administrative service. In 1946 she founded the Club of German Women in Hanover and a year later the women's ring in the British Zone . Since 1948 she has published the magazine The Voice of the Woman , which later became the magazine Für Sie . In 1949 she was one of the co-founders of the German Women's Ring (DFR), which she headed as national chairwoman in the following years.

Public offices

Bähnisch was president of the Hanover administrative district from 1946 to 1959 . This made her the first woman in Germany to hold the office of district president. From 1959 to 1964, she served as State Secretary and Plenipotentiary of Lower Saxony at the federal level in the state governments headed by Prime Ministers Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and Georg Diederichs .

Honors

Medals
Street names
  • Theanolte-Bähnisch-Weg in Langenhagen
  • Thea-Bähnisch-Weg in Hanover
  • Theanolte-Bähnisch-Straße in Berlin-Mitte , 2012 first name of a short cross street of Otto-Braun-Straße very close to Alexanderplatz
  • Theanoltestrasse in Diepholz
  • Theanolte-Bähnisch-Hof in Osnabrück

literature

in order of appearance

  • Ekkehard Gühne: Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973) - from student of Mary to district president. Notes on the Warendorf roots of a committed “women's rights activist” . In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 49–54.
  • Andreas Röpcke : Who's Who in Lower Saxony. A political-biographical guide of the British occupying power 1948/49. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . Vol. 55, 1983, pp. 243-309, here p. 258 (PDF) .
  • Martina Jung, Martina Scheitenberger: "... the head still firmly on the neck". Women in Hanover 1945–49. KUBUS, Hannover 1991, pp. 143ff. (Exhibition catalog).
  • Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 201-213.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1: Aachen - Boguslawski. Saur et al., Munich et al. 1995, ISBN 3-598-23161-X , p. 256.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Bähnisch, Theanolte. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 35 and ö., online via Google books .
  • Nadine Freund: Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973) and her contribution to the reconstruction of Germany in the context of the orientation towards the West after 1945. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . Vol. 80, 2008, pp. 403-430, here p. 408, note 21 with further references, online (PDF; 8.23 ​​MB) .
  • Nadine Freund: "With a hat, charm and diplomacy". On the relationship between femininity and the public, integration and participation in the immediate post-war period: The District President Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973). In: Dagmar Bussiek, Simona Göbel (ed.): Culture, politics and the public. Festschrift for Jens Flemming. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2009, pp. 446-464 (preview) .
  • Klaus Mlynek : Bähnisch, Theanolte. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 42.
  • Karin Ehrich: Europe firmly in view. Theanolte Bähnisch and the German Women's Ring. In: Deutscher Frauenring (Ed.), Doris Riedel (Red.): Six decades of commitment by women for women: 1949–2009. Because it's worth it. Berlin 2009, pp. 38–50.
  • Karin Ehrich: Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973). Administrative lawyer, district president, state secretary. In: Beyond Life. A walk through Hanover's cemeteries. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Historisches Museum Hannover. Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-910073-40-1 , pp. 162-165.
  • Nadine Freund: The administrative lawyer Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973) and the Deutsche Frauenring. From reform-oriented Prussia to West German ties - an impact story . transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4217-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theanolte-Bänisch-weg in Langhagen on strassenkatalog.de
  2. ↑ Information about three new streets in Mitte on Taxi-weblog.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Bähnisch, Theanolte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bähnisch, Dorothea; Nolte, Dorothea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1973
Place of death Hanover